[Hedda]'s diary
I'm heading back to Linköping tomorrow morning.
I've been fighting with damn computers today, and basically nothing has worked as it should. Mother has a program that should enable her to access PRO's membership database, but it's a total pain to install and demands Office, Internet Explorer and 4711 steps to install. PRO is the organization for the Swedish retired people, so I guess they assume that they are very comfortable with computers and doing all sort of work-arounds, I guess...
Written about Thursday 2009-12-24
Written: (6011 days ago)
"Interestingly
not only tended to log more time online (29 hours per week versus 25
for the males), but were also more likely to lie about how much they
really play."
http://www.sci
I knew it! Not so hard to see here on Elftown... And you just have to love this quote:
So, never ask a women her age. Or how much time she spends defeating the dark elves to rebuild the world of Norrath.
The world wide hated Internet destroyer Stephen Conroy from Australia is now having his own fan-site:
http://stephen
Now everyone can learn how great is it to have your Internet filtered!
Written about Thursday 2009-12-17
Written: (6017 days ago)
Ataque de Pánico! (Panic Attack!) 2009
"A producer from Uruguay who made a short science fiction
film and uploaded it to YouTube has landed [1]a film deal with Sam
Raimi's Ghost House worth $300 million. The [2]film, which shows
spaceships and giant robots attacking Montevideo, the capital of
Uruguay, was made by Fede Alvarez for around $300. "I uploaded (Panic
Attack!) on a Thursday and on Monday my inbox was totally full of
e-mails from Hollywood studios," he said. Alvarez is to [3]develop and
direct a film based on one of his ideas, but there is no word yet on
the writer."
The movie's special effects are just as great as if they were made for a high budget Hollywood production. Truly amazing. The story just isn't there though (It's in the class of the story in Independence Day, that is: Not existing.), but what can you expect from a 5 minutes long movie? The point is the great effects and they really fill up these 5 minutes.
Written about Wednesday 2009-12-16
Written: (6019 days ago)
Previous in thread: 1103990 In Artsieladie's diary
That is the best fantasy novel I've read this year! I love how a seemingly normal accidental virus-forwardi
Apparently this fantasy heroine can also see through the soul of rulers like [Hedda], like no one else can. And the myth about the Debby's and Hedda's relationship, is giving that nice feeling of really being there in the land of fantasy, where one could at first think that they would have real magic to tell stories about, but they still create other stories that are even more fantastic than even the fantasy world is.
Unfortunately the storyline just doesn't make sense, but which fantasy writer care about such details? Gandalf could just have taken the ring and teleport himself to mount Doom and then drop it there, for example.
So: Great job! Keep this up and soon everyone will have forgotten about Tolkien and the other B-authors in the fantasy genre.
Update: Writersco
As you read before, the site Writersco moved away from the Heddate-platfo
So the leadership of Writersco moved to the new site www.writersco.
As you can expect everything become great at the new site where everything is so simple and good and great, and people just flocked to the new site... I mean, look at these numbers:
The wiki isn't updated since September or so.
The chat on the main page gets a new comment every week on average.
All the news are since September or earlier.
There are featured members and writings of in total 0 ones.
The writings people have submitted to the site isn't readable by non-members, so I have no idea how recent they are. I don't get why people would bother to "publish" writings for so few members though, but I guess it could be useful for work that you do together with a few others.
I guess that this means that all the problems with using my sites are due to the Heddate system that apparently isn't as inviting as this new system that people are just flooding with activity.
http://writers
Enough of gloating now
I should go back to implementing the new stuff for Elftown, but it helps to feel a little good about myself first.
Written about Saturday 2009-12-12
Written: (6023 days ago)
Previous in thread: 1103433 In Sunrose's diary
It's impressive how Elftown can be so different from a year ago. One year ago people said the exact same thing, and the 5 years before that too! People could realize that it's them who changed (to the worse) and that they can actually do something about it, if they want.
Ha, I'll place this in my diary too (so that you can't delete it...)!
Today is the International Make Fun Of Dutch and Danish people Day (IMFODAD)... More known as International Mountain Day. 
For you who don't follow my Facebook-spami
How your brain works
And how this knowledge can help you in your everyday life. If you're only going to watch one lecture, this is the one. It helps you to be smarter and happier by just giving a thought about how your brain works.
http://www.you
At about 16:00 Swedish time on the 24th of December, we hand out Christmas presents. So on 10:00 o'clock New York time on the 24th, we already get our presents. Think about that, you belated Americans!
The statistics superstar Hans Rosling with his diagrams and wonderful Swedish accent has hold a new speech and is predicting when China and India will have the same income per capita as Europe and USA:
http://www.you
In case you haven't seen it. Take a look at the comments on Vampire Photos. 
Now with an extra New Moon boost!
So this is why Elftown contests have so much higher quality than contests with money prizes:
http://www.you
The short story:
If you give people bonuses they do better at tasks that are about simple things. But they do way worse on tasks that demands thinking outside of the box. Basically: The more you will get rewarded for making a new discovery, the more unlikely you are to do it.
Atheism fundamentalism on the rise!
http://www.you
Not really interesting, but fun to watch despite that it's very serious. I'm not sure how much of it a religious person could stand though.
Atheism has the same problem as for example non-drinking. You don't want to gather in a place and not do something, because that's just isn't fun. But I guess we could gather around the faith that there is a teapot circling around Mars.
Written about Sunday 2009-11-22
Written: (6043 days ago)
"Upload failed, please try again!"
Bah! Facebook sucks! Elftown works!
I think I'll spend my birthday sleeping... And maybe cleaning.
My camera got broken. Again! Last time I buy this kind of easy to break crap!
And now:
Birthday party!
Written about Saturday 2009-11-21
Written: (6043 days ago)
Stargate Universe
Seriously: WTF! Why not rename it into Stargate Dramaqueens?